A Long Island woman is accused of kidnapping and murdering neighbors' pets with the help of her children, and burring them in her backyard, sources said.
Sharon McDonough, 43, was arrested Saturday and charged with animal cruelty.
Authorities have

The surviving litter mates of two 7-week-old puppies beaten to death with a sledgehammer romped, yipped and squirmed gleefully Friday at Glynn County Animal Services as an investigation continues in the case that has outraged animal welfare advocates.

Sarah Palin, the wolf-killing former Republican VP candidate, resigned as governor of Alaska yesterday.
It heartens me that Palin felt the need to address animal issues in her speech on Sunday. It isn't often that a major, national candidate faces

A court in Uttar Pradesh has sentenced a woman poacher to five year rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 25,000 in a 16-year-old tiger
poaching case.
Fifty-five-year-old Dilipo was sentenced yesterday by Additional

The 8-foot alligator opens its jaws wide and hisses in the dark at Julie Harter, who takes a few steps closer and dangles a lasso just like the kind rodeo cowboys use.
Cornered against a chain-link fence in a suburban garbage truck parking lot

A Chesapeake woman is accused in the hit-and-run death of a wild horse in Corolla.
On March 29, T-Rex was struck on the beach -- the first of two horse deaths caused by hit-and-run drivers, according to sheriff's investigators and the Corolla Wild